Metallic building.



W. W.. TAYLOR.

METALLIC BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED 111111.14, 1913.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

WILLIAM W. TAYLOR, 0F MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

METAILLIC BUILDING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1914i...

Application iled March 14, 1913. Serial No. 754,216.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Metallic Building, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. t

My invention relates to metallic buildings adapted to be shipped in knocked-down form, and more articularly the invention relates to a building especially adapted for use as a garage.

t is a design of my invention to provide a structure of the indicated character, in which the various elements may be assembled with the parts properly adjusted and secured without the exercise of great skill, and without great care on the part of the workmen.

It is a further design of the invention to provide between the siding plates or sheets, and between the roofing plates or sheets, joints of increased strength; to provide joints, including the base joint, that will eiectively exclude rain; to provide a base, and base joint of increased strength and simplicity; and to provide an improved form of ridge and novel ridge cover, the latter being adapted to provide for ventilation when the same is deemed desirable.

rlhe invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views. 4

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section showmg a portion of a building embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a. detail vertical cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on a larger scale, showing the sidin plates and their joints.

In forming the uilding parts in accordance with my invention, l' employ for the base, an le bars 10 which in practice after the buil ing is erected, are covered with the cement ooring 11. On the several angle bars of the base, siding plates 12 are placed, which are adapted to receive roof-su porting plates 13, to carry the roofing p ates or sheets 14 and so formed as to dis ose the roof at the proper predetermined-pitch. A ridge 15, hereinafter described, is provided between-the sides ofthe roof, and a cover plate 16 extends along the ridge and part way down the roofing plates. The lower edges of the siding plates 12 are provided with channels opening downwardly to it over the vert-ical members 10a of the angle bars 10. The channel is produced by returning the lower edge of each siding plate twice on itself, as at 12, l2", the returnbends being spaced and flaring downwardly to have a wedging fit over the member 10a, which in practice, tapers upwardly. The siding plates and their return-bends, as well as the members 10a of the base, are oriced to receive bolts 17 having securing nuts 18. The vertical edges of the siding plates 12 are formed with joints, each presenting a vertical rib 19 at the outside and an inner vertical rib 20, the ribs being disposed at a normal angle to the plane of the siding plates, or approximately so. To produce the joints with the indicated ribs one edge of each plate is anged in one direction at a right angle, then returned in the opposite direction to cross the joint to the opposite side and again returned to the body of the plate, while the opposite end of the plate is channeled to receive the described bends on the opposite edge of the adjacent plate; thus, the plate at one edge is first bent outwardly at right angles, as at 12, then returned as at 12d close against the portion 12, the return-bend extending across the joint transecting the plane of the plate, and again returned, as at 12", the extreme edge terminating close against the inner side of the plate. Thus double thicknesses are presented in the form of inner and outer ribs, the one thickness extending in unbroken continuity between the ribs and being common to the two. The opposite edge of the plate is bent inwardly as at 12f, and then returnbent, as at`12g, the said bends being spaced to provide a channel to receive the inner bends of the companion plate. rIhe joint is completed by bolts 21 having, nuts 22, the

bolts extending transversely to the several and there'being bolts 21a and nuts 22a forV 'ing l1 covers the bends 12a, 12b, and thev angle bars 10, the surface of the cement desirably rounding from the floor to the siding plates, so that the base joint will be covered and a smooth rounding outer surface presented that may be conveniently and properly cleaned. v

The roof-supporting plates 13'V range lengthwise along each side at the top of the siding plates 12, and are formedat the inside with return-bends 13EL constituting a channel, and presenting a hook formation to hook over the inwardly bent top edge 12 l of the siding plates 12, between adjacenty inner ribs 20, 20". The body of the plate 13 is inclined downwardly from the inner channeled end to receive the rooting plates or sheets 14 and determine the pitch thereof, as well as to serve in vso locating the rooting plates that all will have a proper a-linement. At the outeroverhanging ends the connection between the roofing sheets and theisupv vporting plates 14 can be effected by any approved means, such as screw bolts23 and nuts 24. The roofing plates or sheets are formed with inner and outer ribs 14a, 14h, at the joints, similarly to those described in connection with the siding plates, there being a difference, however, that the inal bend of the outer rib terminates at the under side, that is to say, the inner side as compared with thesiding plates, in order to better exclude the rain; thus one side edge of a roofing plate is first bent downwardly as at 14" and return-bent as at 14d, said return-bend being continued across the plane of the roofing plate to the under side, and return-bent on itself as at 14e. to form theinner rib. The described bends at the upper side are received in a channel presentedA by the opposite edge of the adjacent. plate, the channel being produced by bending the edge of the plate first upwardly, as at 14", and then downwardly as at' 14g, the said bends being spaced apart to receive the mating bends on the opposite plate. The' under ribs 14b are cut away to provide recesses or openings 14g,

that receive the supporting plates 13 and permit the rooting plates to lit over said supportingv plates. Desirably the outer edgesv of the supporting plates are formed with down-turned flanges 13b to strengthen the same and providea better Contact surface with the adjacent portions of the under ribs of the rooting plates.

The ridge 15 has a' core 15a in the form of an angle bar disposed with its apex uppermost, and around said core is bent a sheet of plate metal which follows approximately the generalangular formation of the core 15a, and is then extended'outwardly, as at 15b,

and then return-bent to provide lateral, v approximately horizontal wings or flanges 15". From the wings 15b, the opposite sides of the plate are broughtl against thecore 15a and then continued upwardly, and so formed as to provide a vertical rib 15, the one side being returned in a downward direction as at 15d over'4 upwardly extending terminals 15e of the other side. Bolts 26 provided with nuts 27 extend transversely through the several members of the vertical rib 15". The roofing plate 16 is placed o ver the ridge and inclines downwardly from the peak of the roof over the upper ends ofY the roofing platesv 14. At the lower ends the cover 16 is bent downwardly at substantially a right,

bent at approximately a rightangle to provide securing feet 16", bolts 25 and nuts 25a or equivalent means being employed tosccure' the said feet to the roofing plates. It will thus be seen that since the body of the cover 16 rests on the outer ribs 14, a space isproduced between the cover and the bodies of the roofingplates 14, and the space is open at the upper end between the roofing plates andthe ridge'and communicates with the spaces between the under ribs 14b at the under side of the roofing plates, so that if there be holes 16c formed in the down-turned portions 16a of the cover 16, there may be a circulation offairupward from the interior of the building between the under ribs 14h,

around the upper ends of the rooting plates,

and outward beneath the cover 16 through the holes 16.

'It will be apparent that the described construction gives a maximum strength to the building, particularly with regard to the ribbed joint between the separate sheets forming the sides and roof, and the elements are so fashioned and have so simple a form, that particular skill or special care is not necessary on the part of the workmen charged wit-h assembling the parts. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and `desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. In a metallic building, inclosing sheets or plates having mating joint members on themeeting edges of the sheetsA forming inner and outer ribs projecting'laterally at the sheets, the joint member on one sheet ybeing twice returned on itself, presenting a substantially a normal angle to the plane of lateral flange at a normal angle to the body, a returned member lying close against the said flange and extending across the joint, to be thus disposed inside and outside of the plate and transecting the plane of the plate, there being a second return bend in the plane of the flange and close against the transecting member, the terminal edge abutting the face of the plate opposite the said flange; and the joint member on the opposed edge of the adjacent plate presenting a U-bend receiving therein the adjacent portion of the joint member on the adjacent plate, and having its terminal edge abutting the adjacent face of the said adjacent late.

2. In a metallic building, siding plates having mating joint members on the adja cent edges of the sheets forming inner and outer ribs projecting laterally at substantially a normal angle to the plane of the sheets, a base bar presenting an upwardly projecting member, the lower edges of the siding plates being twice return-bent, presenting a downwardly-opening channel receiving the vertical member of thebase, the outer ribs of the vertical joints extending downwardly outside the vertical member of the base, and the inner ribs terminating above the said upper vertical member and above the channel on the siding plates.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM W. TAYLOR.

Witnesses J. L. MCAULIFFE, PHILIP l). RoLLHAUs. 

